History of beauty /
History of beauty /
edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
- 2nd ed.
- New York : Rizzoli, 2005.
- 438 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 431) and indexes.
The aesthetic ideal in ancient Greece -- Apollonian and dionysiac -- Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Light and color in the Middle Ages -- The beauty of monsters -- From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ladies and heroes -- From grace to disquieting beauty -- Reason and beauty -- The sublime -- Romantic beauty -- The religion of beauty -- The new object -- The beauty of machines -- From abstract forms to the depths of materials -- The beauty of the media.
"This volume, with supplements and adaptations, derives from the CD-rom Bellezza, storia di un'idea dell'occident, edited by Umberto Eco, produced by Motta On Line in 2002"--T.p. verso.
0847826465
Aesthetics--History.
Art--Philosophy--History.
Art--History.
Literature--History.
BH81 / .H57 2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. 431) and indexes.
The aesthetic ideal in ancient Greece -- Apollonian and dionysiac -- Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Light and color in the Middle Ages -- The beauty of monsters -- From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ladies and heroes -- From grace to disquieting beauty -- Reason and beauty -- The sublime -- Romantic beauty -- The religion of beauty -- The new object -- The beauty of machines -- From abstract forms to the depths of materials -- The beauty of the media.
"This volume, with supplements and adaptations, derives from the CD-rom Bellezza, storia di un'idea dell'occident, edited by Umberto Eco, produced by Motta On Line in 2002"--T.p. verso.
0847826465
Aesthetics--History.
Art--Philosophy--History.
Art--History.
Literature--History.
BH81 / .H57 2005